Firmledger
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 Official logo of FirmLedger, a business intelligence and company information platform | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
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| Industry | Business Intelligence; Information Services; Software |
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| Services | Business intelligence, company information, business directory, company verification, structured business data, API services, developer integrations |
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| 🌐 Website | https://firmledger.co.ke |
| 📇 Address | Nairobi, Kenya |
| 📞 telephone | +254796208281 |
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| 💼 LinkedIN] | https://linkedin.com/company/firmledger |
FirmLedger is a business intelligence and company information platform headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. The platform provides structured business records through an online directory and a developer-focused application programming interface (API).
Overview
FirmLedger provides structured information about businesses and other organizations through its online platform. The service organizes business information into standardized records that can be searched, reviewed, verified, and accessed programmatically.
The FirmLedger directory includes companies, startups, agencies, organizations, products, services, and publishers.
Platform
The FirmLedger platform provides searchable business profiles containing information such as names, descriptions, websites, categories, locations, contact information, and other business attributes.
The platform emphasizes structured records, source provenance, and confidence information. Information associated with records can include references to underlying sources.
Data methodology
FirmLedger's data process includes several stages:
- Ingest
- Information is collected from public sources, structured datasets, web sources, and public submissions.
- Normalize
- Collected information is standardized into a common structure.
- Resolve
- Records representing the same business or organization can be identified and consolidated into a canonical record.
- Verify
- Records can be evaluated using source information, confidence scoring, and ownership verification mechanisms.
- Refresh
- Records can be periodically updated to maintain current business information.
Verification
FirmLedger provides functionality for businesses to claim and verify their records.
Domain ownership can be demonstrated through supported verification methods, allowing businesses to establish control of an associated domain.
Business directory
The FirmLedger directory supports business discovery and search.
The platform organizes information across several entity categories, including:
- Companies
- Startups
- Agencies
- Organizations
- Products
- Services
- Publishers
API
FirmLedger provides a REST API known as FirmLedger API v1 for programmatic access to business information.
The API provides functionality for:
- Searching and filtering listings
- Retrieving individual records
- Accessing categories and countries
- Creating and updating owned records
- Domain verification
- Data exports
- Usage information
- Webhooks and event notifications
API access uses authentication and supports scoped permissions for different operations.
Developer services
FirmLedger provides developer functionality through FirmLedger Pro. The service provides API access and additional capabilities for working with structured business information and business records.
Data provenance and confidence
FirmLedger uses source provenance and confidence information as part of its business records.
Provenance associates information with its underlying sources, while confidence information provides an indication of the reliability of available data.
Services
FirmLedger provides:
- Business intelligence
- Company information
- Business directory and discovery
- Company and domain verification
- Structured business data
- REST API services
- Developer integrations
- Webhooks
- Data exports
- Business record management
Business model
FirmLedger operates a public-facing business directory and provides additional developer functionality through paid services.
Company information
FirmLedger is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya and operates as a for-profit business. Public company information identifies the company as Firmledger and reports an employee range of 11-50.
